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One of my friends has been a peasant all his life and also a big fan of Battlefield. When he saw the difference between PC and console for BF4, he went "Fuck this shit" and he bought a monster of a PC. I'm so proud of him. However, I can't seem to get in contact with him since release. I wonder why.

Consoles have seen four (five now, actually) BF games including Bad Company 1 & 2 and BF1943, which is a very solid game. It's more or less the Pacific maps from '42 redone on Frostbite, and it's the genuine article.

It's possible to be console gamer, and play a few PC games at some point. Now, I can't account for when he first discovered Battlefield, so I can't tell you if he's played the older ones.

He's been playing BF3, ever since it came out, now he's playing BF4, that makes him more than just a fan one game.

Even if he hadn't owned any of the games, it would still be possible to be a fan of the game series. Say, you were poor and didn't have the money for a game - you could still be a fan of it and support it. This goes with anything. I'm a big fan of fancy cars, even though I don't have one.

Funnily enough, if you buy the cheaper model tesla Roadster you can do exactly that.

Rather than make two different cars & battery packs Tesla did what some CPU manufacturers do and made one model but sold it at two different price points, one being hobbled by DRM to lower it's battery charge and engine output. If you pay them a significant extra fee they'll un-DRM your car by downloading some software onto it and 'allow you' to use the full horsepower and battery capacity available.

Kinda shady if you ask me, but welcome to tech companies building cars!

I'm sure that before long you'll be able to pirate the ECU software and do the modification yourself, so while you may not yet be able to download a car, you'll be able to download pirated software which lets you use the thing you already paid for to its full potential.

Oh its so good. Its basically the same, minus the destruction. But youre out in open fields instead of buildings and its a lot tougher because you dont have the benefit of the modern tech like radar and tracking on rockets.

I really want them to make a straight up Vietnam game... Then I want either more bad companies (which I think tey said tey were doing next) and then bak to world war games or more Vietnam gamea. That's wut they need to do.

But lets be honest, that isn't realism, that's just lazy designing in the game.

Other than the same palm trees, I'm not defending the single player campaign any more. I finished it in under 7 hours, and it was buggy, the AI was moronic, but it did have some crazy fucking action moments though. 7/10 would buy again for the multiplayer.

Wind is not uniform. If you're only going to have one animation, as meneo said, you could simply offset the animation start frame and the trees would be mimicking the non-uniform nature of wind. Wind diffuses and encounters resistance, but it basically moves like a wave, so an offset of a random framerate in the loop would've made it look a little less distracting.

Thats what makes it odd. Like you said there needs to be more than one model. Sure the trees would sway at roughly the same time, but the different thicknesses and amount of leaves etc would alter how much they sway.

All of them swaying in perfect unison is something you would never see in 200 years of nature. Possibly longer.

It's not quite real-time wind physics, but those animations aren't baked into the model; Frostbite 3's dynamic weather system is procedurally animating the trees to sway with the gusts of wind. If you have BF4, hop onto an empty server, toss some C4 near a tree or something, and watch how the tree reaches to the force of the explosion. It's actually pretty cool.

I bet you are real fun at parties. Lol, but damn you are right. I cannot unsee. I doubt my 670 could even look close to as good as that even how it is. At a decent frame rate at least. :/ #pcmasterraceproblems

It's an issue in Planetside 2; on the lowest settings, smoke and lighting effects are turned down quite a lot, meaning that people can see enemies through grenade smoke or at night much, much more accurately. I'm a graphics whore, too, so I rarely ever turn down my settings.

Well to be fair CSGO has lots of fog, bloom and shit on the maps which really obscures vision and detail, so I don't blame them for not liking it as it's its not that good from a competitive standpoint

Fucking hate those guys, they don't understand that cs go is better to watch. Which for a cs game is pretty important. They're not helping the community despite valve doing almost everything they want to improve cs go

I agree with you, but peasants like to use it as a cop out for their inferiority. They take a well thought out change and try to apply it to every instance of missing effect and claim it is done for the sake of bettering the game.

I'm not sure the exact thing you're alluding to; that YouTube's compression isn't shit, or that we should opt for, for the sake of demonstration, that kind of shit compression over a decently made gif.. at least as far as shitty gifs go. In either case, we're getting an inaccurate depiction.

I'm alluding to the fact that gifs are pretty much the epitome of shit compression in every quantifiable metric. Claiming a gif is better than youtube compression is akin to claiming a PS3 is better than a Titan rig. It's just plain stupid.

Most Singaporean signboards don't look like that any more. The yellow wordings are being phased out. In fact I don't see many of these signboards any more. Current Model. Can't seem to find them on google but it looks something like that now. Oh and the signboard on battlefield looks like the signboards in the CBD area. They do look like that, but just in English only.

The only reason I said that I "hate" the quality because it is too high is when it is in gif form!
Needless to say, it looks pretty amazing but I was staring at it frame by frame for a good five minutes.

Is this what it has become? Being called a peasant straight away due to a slow bandwidth keeping such a high quality gif away from me?
We are brothers together through our shrines of GabeN. We should not be accusing each other of such vile things.
EDIT: And why would I be on this subreddit if I wasn't an avid follower of GabeN?!

Clearly approaching hurricane force winds. The road sign should be experiencing stress. The street lights should be vibrating. There's plenty of static debris on the ground while palm trees dip and sway. And your soldier is standing upright, holding a heavy MG? "Realistic" physics... what is this, a game?!

for some reason I read "Battlefield 4 on the XBONE" instead of PC, I sat there looking at the gif thinking "This looks beautiful, how'd this end up on master race?" Then of course I re-read the title and everything made sense.

I think this problem might be specific to you. Do you have the Catalyst drivers from the 29th? BF4 runs pretty much the same as BF3 for several people I know. I use a 7950 on 3 monitors (5292x1050) and it appears as though average framerate in both BF3 and BF4 is identical using the "medium" preset - that is to say, ~60fps. If I switch down to mere single monitor, ultra + MSAA nets 60fps no problem.

Okay, I have a 3570 and a 7950, I run the textures and meshes on ultra, the rest on high, and with no aa on 1080p, and I get flawless performance. between 70 - 100 fps at all times, with a few drops below 60 at certain times.